Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
Jon Daniels was one of the may white northern college students who went south in the 1960's to work for the civil rights movement. Daniels' involvement, however, had an unusual and tragic ending: on August 20, 1965, Tom L. Coleman, a fifty-two-year-old white man, shot and killed the activist in...
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Jon Daniels was one of the may white northern college students who went south in the 1960's to work for the civil rights movement. Daniels' involvement, however, had an unusual and tragic ending: on August 20, 1965, Tom L. Coleman, a fifty-two-year-old white man, shot and killed the activist in Hayneville, Alabama. The killing of Jon Daniels late in the summer of 1965 was in many ways the last atrocity of the first, southern, nonviolent phase of the civil rights movement.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780817310691 (081731069X)
Publish date: October 23rd 2000
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English